A Contribution to the Knowledge to the Avifauna of the Riu Kiu Islands and the vicinity A very rare work issued

A very rare work issued in a limited edition of only a few hundred copies subsidized by a grant from the Gurdon Saltonstall Fund

with 2 black-and-white illustrations

that was assembled and bound by herpetologist Walter Necker

from anthropology to zoology

A Contribution to the Knowledge to the Avifauna of the Riu Kiu Islands and the vicinity A very rare work issuedPp. vi, 293 + 8 full page color plates (from painting by Juzo Kobayashi), 1 large folding map, 1 table. Later one half tan morocco leather with five raised bands, one compartment has a red morocco title leather panel lettered in gilt, over original wine red cloth covered boards, original pale yellow endpapers, top page edge in gilt, folio (15. 25 x 10. 75 inches). This monograph is based primarily on 14 months of fieldwork from 1921 1922 in the Riu